BARDIN, Thomas EDKINS, Samuel, London, circa 1835

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BARDIN, Thomas EDKINS, Samuel, London, circa 1835
A good pair of 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter table globes:
the terrestrial THE NEW TWELVE INCH BRITISH Terrestrial Globe REPRESENTING THE ACCURATE POSITIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL KNOWN PLACES OF THE EARTH FROM THE DISCOVERIES OF CAPTAIN COOK AND SUBSEQUENT CIRCUMNAVIGATORS TO THE PRESENT PERIOD Manufactured by S.S. Edkins Son in Law & Successor to the late T.M. Bardin Salisbury Square, London made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes laid on a thick hollow plaster and wood sphere, the southern polar calotte with a printed hour dial and brass pointer and Published by S.S. Edkins Son in Law & Successor to the late T.M. Bardin Salisbury Square London, the equatorial graduated in two sets of individual degrees 0-360° and 1-180° (x2), labelled every 5°, and hours I-XII (x2) and 1-12 (x2) in opposing directions, the Meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, a scale for the climates of hours shown at 130°W, the ecliptic graduated in individual days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils and labelled every five days, the oceans with an analemma, trade winds, and the tracks of Cook's three voyages with various dates and notes, the Antarctic with various notes relating to sightings of ice, also with Enderby Land 1831, Weddell's most southern latitude, and no further coastline apart from Graham Land, the continents in yellow, with some nation states coloured a darker shade, and some delicately hand-outlined in red, finely detailed with rivers, mountains, towns and cities;
the celestial THE NEW TWELVE INCH British Celestial Globe, Containing the exact positions of more than 3800 FIXD STARS, Nebulæ, Planetary Nebulæ &c. according to the Latest Discoveries and Observations of Astronomers and corrected to the present period, a second cartouche nearby reading MADE by S.S. Edkins son in Law to the late T.M. BARDIN Salisbury Sqe.London, made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved half-gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, the southern celestial Pole with a double printed hour dial and brass pointer, the equatorial graduated in individual degrees and labelled every 5° and in hours I-XXIIII, the four colures graduated in individual degrees and labelled every 5°, the ecliptic with twilight zone graduated in individual days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils and labelled every five days, a table showing the stars to seven orders of magnitude with a symbol for nebulae, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments and labelled in Latin, the stars labelled with various letters and numbers in Greek and Arabic, and some named in Latin;
both spheres with a stamped brass hour dial at the North Pole, the stamped brass meridian circle graduated in four quadrants, the mahogany horizon with hand-coloured paper ring showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth, compass directions, days of the houses of the Zodiac and days of the month, edged in red, raised on four baluster-turned ebonised legs united by cross-stretchers -- 18¼in. (46.3cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Samuel Sabine Edkins (1791-1853) is at the tail-end of a long and distinguished history of English globe-making. A silversmith and member of the Cutler's Company, in 1832 he married Elizabeth Marriott Bardin (1799-1851). At this time, his wife was running the Bardin family firm of globe-makers which she had inherited from her father Thomas Marriott (1768-1819) who, in turn, had inherited it from his father William Bardin (1740-1798). William had founded the company in about 1872 with Gabriel Wright (1740-1803) to issue a fine pair of 12in. globes, and since then the Bardin firm had been at the forefront of English globe-making (see Lot 12).
Following their marriage, Edkins took over running the company and such was the strength of the firm's name that he credited himself on the globes' cartouches as "S.S. Edkins Son-In-Law & Successor to the late T.M. Bardin". In 1848 John Parry Edkins (1823-1883), a son by one of Samuel's two previous marriages joined the firm and the name on the cartouche was changed once again, to "S.S. Edkins and Son" and it was under this name that a pair of 18in. globes was shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851. By this time John Parry was effectively running the company, both parents being incapacitated through illness. Elizabeth died in 1851, and Samuel soon followed, in 1853. No globes bearing the name of Edkins can be positively dated to later than 1852, and the census returns record that John Parry left the globe-making trade by 1861.

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